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Let\u2019s Make Noise, Sisters! <\/em>(2020\u2013) is an ongoing radical feminist art-music project\u2014presented in this iteration as a multichannel video installation\u2014that searches for answers to fundamental questions that define our present: Can we gather all our anger and need for change and transform this into new energy? Can we abandon our defensive positions and become visionaries? Is it possible to change anger into music that is a stunning and cathartic force?<\/p>\n

The answers to these questions are manifested in a series of performative videos that call for collaboration and explore femininity, diversity, heritage, and social background. The project\u2019s initiator, Zorka Wollny<\/strong>, states: \u201cWe ask for the use of the entire spectrum of our senses and the embrace of our dying mother Earth with a protective cloud of sound. Let\u2019s offer our audience a beautiful way to channel their anger, frustration, sense of powerlessness\u2014or otherwise\u2014to let their empowerment shine. Let\u2019s awaken some good spirits! We all need them now.\u201d<\/p>\n

For 15 years now, Wollny<\/strong> has been creating sound pieces that respond to particular social situations. Her acoustic compositions mostly result from close cooperation with individuals and groups of students, workers, and activists, focusing on vocal performances in public space that address social anger, activism, and the sense of powerlessness. The collaborative project Let\u2019s Make Noise, Sisters!<\/em> arises from the urgent need to articulate a radical reaction to the recently introduced misogynist policies of the Polish government, which aim to take away women\u2019s self-determination and which are well received and supported by the region\u2019s right-leaning politicians. The \u201cLet\u2019s Make Noise, Sisters!\u201d manifesto contends that all the energy that artists, oppositional intellectuals, and NGOs have invested in recent years in attempting to care for society and disadvantaged groups and to somehow save the crumbling system needs to end. Instead of effectively removing the burden of these responsibilities from the shoulders of politicians and corporations, the energy previously dedicated to this impossible mission rather should be invested in expressing the need for profound change in our social systems.<\/p>\n

\u201cWomen have always rebelled and plotted against enforced reproductivity,\u201d writes one of the project participants, feminist philosopher Ewa Majewska<\/strong>. She continues: \u201cHerbal, medicinal, and magical forms of knowledge have always been (mis)treated in a similar way to women\u2019s autonomy\u2014throughout history, they have been subjected to ridicule, exclusion, prohibition, and sanction. The rituals and chants we perform here reanimate the memory of the repressed and the destroyed traditions of women\u2019s knowledge, developed by witches, midwives, and sorceresses. Acknowledging the power of our technically mediated ability to restore that memory, we do not want to rule out science or conventional medicine in some sort of revengeful excision. Instead, we want to recall what has been separated from knowledge, often artificially distinguished from it, and thus also destroyed. By reaching out to myths, we do not overthrow reason\u2014we invoke opposition to unjustified suffering, artificial exclusion, inequality, and harm. By claiming the knowledge and wisdom that has been repressed through the ages, we invoke the resistance, headstrongness, and disagreement of women rebelling against violence, exploitation, and the appropriation of our power and our bodies.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Psychedelic Choir<\/strong>, <\/strong>initiated by Wollny<\/strong> in 2019, is a group of Berlin-based improvisers that intonates haunted ambient sounds through witchcraft ritual. Bass player Leah Buckareff (of noise duo Nadja) provides a mesmerizing sonic foundation of drones and processed sounds for the vocals.<\/p>\n

Noise Sisters<\/strong> is a group of angry women from Warsaw, made up of members of Polin Choir,<\/em> who joined the Let\u2019s Make Noise, Sisters!<\/em> project in the autumn of 2020.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s Make Noise, Sisters!<\/strong><\/em> is written and performed by<\/strong> Ana Kavalis, Anna Clementi, Anna Gutkowska, Anna Jurkiewicz, Anna Krzystowska, Barbara Pop\u0142awska, Dagmara Siwczyk, Dominika Korzeniecka, Edyta Paw\u0142owska, El\u017cbieta Balano, Ewa Majewska, Florence Freitag, Gosia Gajdemska, Karoline Strys, Leah Buckareff, Lyllie Rouvi\u00e8re, Magdalena \u017baczek, Majka Gromadowska, Pauline Payen, Renata Dziurawiec, Ula Iwi\u0144ska, Zorka Wollny.<\/p>\n

Filmed by<\/strong> Insa Langhorst, Aleka Polis.<\/p>\n

The Pulverturm<\/strong> (Gunpowder Tower) belongs to the former castle wall and is the only remaining building of the fortifications of Oldenburg. Its history goes back to 1529, when Count Anton I (1505\u20131573) initiated the renewal of the city\u2019s military facilities. Since 1996, the Pulverturm has been used for cultural purposes during the summer and autumn months.<\/p>\n

Pulverturm<\/strong>, Am Schlosswall, 26122 Oldenburg.<\/p>\n

Produced <\/strong>by Komuna Warszawa as part of the Hub Kultury 2020 <\/em>residency program Common Ground<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Curated<\/strong> for the Edith-Russ-Haus by Edit Moln\u00e1r & Marcel Schwierin.<\/p>\n

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